Rapidly blinding posterior tubercular uveitis
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Rapidly blinding posterior tubercular uveitis
BACKGROUND A 21-year-old female patient had chorioretinitis in the left eye which relapsed while being on anti-tubercular treatment and oral corticosteroids leading to blindness and the loss of the left eye. FINDINGS Mycobacterium tuberculosis causing chorioretinitis showed a poor response, and the lung lesions showed a good response to the same anti-tubercular treatment. CONCLUSIONS Mycoba...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1869-5760
DOI: 10.1186/1869-5760-4-13